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Have a Samsung HDTV? - Got Bad News

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#1 ·
It seems Samsung has put under-power capacitors in their HDTV. All of their A & B models made from '07 to '09 have this defect. Which like Toyota, Samsung is in denial of any problem.

Found out about this the hard way, when my LN52A650 went on Saturday with the On/Off clicking issue. I purchased the set from Best Buy in Apr '08, so it was out of warranty, but I call Samsung anyway to check up on any recall. I told 'em the model number and the problem I was having. Except for telling me I was out the warranty, they had little info. I then Google and found thousands of Samsung owners with this apparent well known problem. How well known? Well after Googling and finding a YouTube on how to fix the problem, I called the Geek Squad and arranged an appointment under my extended warranty that I have with Best Buy. Now to answer the how well known - the repairman showed up at my door with a portable solder gun and 16v capacitors to replace the 10v ones at noon and he was finish before one.

I have found a class action lawsuit in progress at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. I registered. If you have or had this problem or know of someone that has, please register.

And after the Toyota fiasco of denying any defects, I figured I would contact my local TV news and see if they're interested in doing a followup story of another Asian company in denial of manufacturing defects. Again, I think if you have or had this problem, you should also bring this to your local station attention. Sooner or later, sooner depending on the number of calls, this standard practice of denying defects will be brought to national attention and speed up recalls.

I'm also now going around the Internet and posting this event everywhere I can think of.

The moral here, is do not mess with Drucifer!

Oh, I'm a DerecTV subscriber. So I'm not SPAMMING this forum.
 
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I'm posting this here in case related, but not sure... I'm no tech wiz, so any responses need to be clear please..

I have a Samsung # LN40B550K1F 40" LCD TV... Purchased end of 2009 from Best Buy.

The past month or so, i hav noticed some dark spots particularly on the botton 1/4 of the screen and especially in the right hand bottom corner where networks put their watermark logos... Like shadows, but permament in those areas...

Also, when the screen is black for a program or if you pause it when it's a dark scene, you can see the vertical panels (i guess) about 5" wide that make up the screens background, which i never noticed before...

I compare this to there being dust on the screen and someone not cleaning the dust off in all areas.. You still see the picture fine, except during certain shows, you see the flaw depending on color and what your focusing on.... Seems to be getting worse lately.. Again, didn't see this problem till about a a month or month and half ago...

Does anyone half this problem or aware of this issue?? thx
 
#28 ·
Retro said:
I'm posting this here in case related, but not sure... I'm no tech wiz, so any responses need to be clear please..

I have a Samsung # LN40B550K1F 40" LCD TV... Purchased end of 2009 from Best Buy.

The past month or so, i hav noticed some dark spots particularly on the botton 1/4 of the screen and especially in the right hand bottom corner where networks put their watermark logos... Like shadows, but permament in those areas...

Also, when the screen is black for a program or if you pause it when it's a dark scene, you can see the vertical panels (i guess) about 5" wide that make up the screens background, which i never noticed before...

I compare this to there being dust on the screen and someone not cleaning the dust off in all areas.. You still see the picture fine, except during certain shows, you see the flaw depending on color and what your focusing on.... Seems to be getting worse lately.. Again, didn't see this problem till about a a month or month and half ago...

Does anyone half this problem or aware of this issue?? thx
My Toshiba is also showing dark clouds on part of the screen. I'm wondering, is your Samsung a glossy screen, or a matte screen?
 
#29 ·
Well the clicking has returned. Unlike in February, the Samsung LN52A650, v SQ01 was able to turn on after 5 to 10 minutes of false starts. I've called my extended warranty company, Best Buy and this time they will replace the power board instead of only doing the bad capacitors.

Considering these sets use almost as much power being on as off, I plan to leave the set on until next week when it gets fixed.
 
#30 ·
Well I had a power blackout this evening. So much for my plan to keep the set on. Power came back about an hour ago. But the Samsung has been only be able to click away.
 
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